£*j Ohfervahons on the 



with arty (hackles at all ? May it not be alked, what jufl right 

 have the members of the Levant Company to lay reftraints 

 on this trade by their bye-laws ? I have heard this fubjeft 

 difcuffed in Turkey, where people certainly underftand the 

 trade of the country better than in England, and I never 

 heard one plaufible reafon alleged in favour of the company. 

 Sophiftical arguments may be produced in London, which 

 may appear plaufible to thofe who are not informed of the 

 real ftate of matters in Turkey. 



To (how what little efforts have been made by the com- 

 pany to extend the trade, and how little they deviate from 

 the footftepa of their forefathers, I will cite two finking in- 



ftances : 



Mr. John Humphrys, of Constantinople, was the firft, 

 who, a few years ago, imagined that Englifh fhal loons might 

 be fold in Conftantinople, and they foon became a very im- 

 portant article for exportation to Turkey. The French have 

 not been able to make them fo cheap. 



Mr. Peter Took, of Conftantinoplo, only about twenty 

 vears ao-o, difcovered that he might buy raw filk from the 

 firft hands at Brufa, (the hills behind this city are vifible from 

 our merchants houfes in Pera.) and thus make his returns 

 direct to England. Before that period, from the firil ex- 

 igence of the company, the merchants of Conftantinople had 

 always fent their money to Smyrna to be inverted in filk, 

 which the Turks and Jews of Smyrna bought at Brufa. 



There is a great demand in Turkey for Stanordfhire 

 earthen-ware, which would become a very important article 

 of commerce. 



Perhaps the greateft importation of Britifh articles into 

 Turkey would be by foreigners, or natives of the Turkifh 

 provinces, as is the cafe in many branches of our commerce, 

 where fuch reftraints on foreigners do not exift; for inftance, 

 every one knows that not one-tenth part of our exports to 

 Ruffia are on account of the Ruffia Company in London, or 

 of the Britifh Factory in Ruffia. Thefe articles are fent to 



Ruffia 



